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The learning tree / a film by Gordon Parks.

Two-DVD special edition.

[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2021]

2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Based on Parks' semi-autobiographical novel, the film follows the journey of Newt Winger, a teenage descendant of Exodusters growing up in rural Kansas in the 1920s, as he experiences the bittersweet flowering of first love, finds his relationship with a close friend tested, and navigates the injustices embedded within a racist legal and educational system. Exquisitely capturing the bucolic splendor of its heartland setting, this landmark film tempers nostalgia with an incisive understanding of the harsh realities, hard-won lessons, and often wrenching moral choices that shape the road to self-determination of the young Black man at its center.

Criterion collection ; 1107

Criterion collection ; 1107.

African American families -- Kansas -- Drama.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Drama.

Murder -- Drama.

Kansas -- Drama.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006, film director, screenwriter, film producer.

Johnson, Kyle, 1951- actor.

Clarke, Alex, 1949-2010, actor.

Evans, Estelle, 1906-1985, actor.

Film adaptation of (work): Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006. Learning tree.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Learning tree (Motion picture)

Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.

Wide screen (2.35:1).

Special features: New documentary on the making of the film; New conversation, moderated by film scholar Michael B. Gillespie; My father: Gordon Parks, a documentary made on the set of The learning tree; Diary of a Harlem family and The world of Piri Thomas; Unstoppable (2005): a documentary; trailer; How it feels to be black; excerpt from the director's 2005 book, A hungry heart: a memoir.

Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans.

DVD, NTSC region 1; wide screen 2.35:1 aspect ratio; monaural Dolby audio.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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